Carolyn Bennett promises Canada will not let down families of MMIW
CALGARY — Canada’s minister of Indigenous Affairs says she understands some families of missing and murdered aboriginal women are still frustrated about the pace of a national inquiry.
But Carolyn Bennett promises the government won’t let them down.
“We need to keep going — the families are counting on us,” the minister told reporters Friday as she attended the opening of the Calgary Stampede Indian Village.
“I think we’re all impatient. A lot of these people have been fighting for a decade or more for there to be some understanding of the issues from the child welfare system, to racism and sexism and policing — things that the families were telling everybody about and nothing happened.